Urinal



(No Model.)

P. WHITE.

URINAL.

No. 432,465. Patented July l5, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

PETER WHITE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

URINAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,465, dated July 15, 1890.

Application filed January 3l, 1890. Serial No. 338,776. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER IVHITE, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Urinals, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement has relation more especially to tankurinals, in which siphonic mechanism is employed in delivering the water of the tank to the urinal'; and it consists in the improved means for breaking the siphon, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a view of the improved construction. The tank is shown in vertical section and the remaining portion of the construction in front elevation, saving that a portion of the urinal-bowlis broken away to exhibit the water-passages; Fig. 2, a vertical section ofthe tank and the siphon. The ballvalve used in breaking the siphon is in elevation and shown closed; Fig. 3, a view similar to that of Fig. 2, the ball-valve shown open; Fig. 4, a vert-ical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. l, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents the urinal, which is of the usual construction, saving as it is modified by the improvement under consideration.

B represents the tank from which the water C is supplied to the urinalebowl a. The water liows from the tank into the discharge pipe D and thence into the bowl a, passing first into the bowl-passages a and ultimately into the bowl.

E representsA the upper trapin the urinal and F the lower trap.

G represents the pipe leading from th chamber H, between the traps, upward to connect with the pipe D in the usual manner, substantially as shown at I, to constitute an ejector of the usual character. The water is supplied to the tank through some suitable supply-pipe, such as shown at J.

K represents a siphon connected atits lower end Z3 with the ejector I and leading thence upward at Zt into the tank to the level at which the water stands therein, and then turning downward at k2 toward the bottom of the tank and having its end k3 open to admit the water from the tank.

The water may be'supplied to the tank in any of the well-known or usual methods, and the Water Iiows,when the siphon is slanted from the tank upward, into the siphon K, and then I some bearing, such as shown, and adapted to seat and close an opening at Z in the siphon K in the part 7c thereof above the level of the end 7c3, substantially as shown.

The various parts of the ball-valve are contrived, substantially as shown, so that as the water wells upward in the tank the ball Z2 ot' the valve is Athereby lifted and the valve thereby seated, and as the water falls in the tank the ball drops and the valve thereby unseated. The ball-valve, by means such as the chain Z3, applied to an extension ZA1 of the valve-lever Z5, is also adapted to be unseated irrespective of the stage of water in the tank.

In operation, suppose by means of a pull upon the chain Z3 or otherwise the Valve is unseated when the water is standing in the tank above the level of the opening Z-'say as indicated in Fig. S-and after a momentary pull upon the chain the valve is released. The valve at lirst unseats, as stated, and the water commences to flow from the tank through the opening Z into the part Zt of the siphon K. This described flow operates to start another iow oi' water from the tank upward. into the part k2 of the siphon K, and thence over into the descending part 7c,where upon the ejector I is started into operation. Vhen the pull upon the chain ceases before the water has fallen sufficiently in the tank IOO rises and the valve seats, as shown in Fig. l. The water, however, although proven ted l` rom entering the siphon K through the opening l", continues to How into the siphon K through the part 7g2 thereof, and thence to the ejector I, and this continues until the water has fallen in the tank below the level of the opening l sulliciently to enable the ball to drop and eiteet the unseating of the valve L, whereupon the siphon is at once broken by the entrance of air through the openingl, and the water ceases to flow from the tank. The water flowing into the Tank again lifts the ball and causes the valve to seat automatically. The siphon K serves also for an overflow-pipe.

ly any means (not shown) the water is kept from rising abovea eertainlevelin thetanksay not above the level of the top of the partition which separates the parts 7s' k2 of the passage K-butshould the water rise to cause the water to well upward in the part k2 to flow over into the part le the siphonage of the water from the tank is initiated and maintained until the water is lowered in the tank suilieiently to elleet the unseating of the valve, whereupon the Siphon is again broken automatically.

The herein-described tank mechanism is illustrated in connection with a urinal. It

can, however, be used in connection with varions forms of water-closets in which siphon mechanism is used.

I claiml. In combination with the tank having the water-inlet, the watenoutlet, and the siphon 7n le?, as described, the herein-described ball-valve and its seat, said valve-seat being arranged in the descending partof said siphon at a level above the inlet to the ascending part ot said siphon and above the level to which the water drops when the tank is siphoned, but below the level at which the waterstands in the tank prior to the siphoning of the tank, and the valve-lever, ball and pivot being arranged and extended to enable the valve, in case its lever released, immediately after the siphoning is initiated,to seat automatically, and when seated to be unseated automatically by the water falling in the tank, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a urinal or water-Closet having an ej eetor I, of the tank, the inlet, the siphon K, having the parts k .:2 and valve-seat and the ball-valve, said ballvalve and valve-seat, together with the lever and pivot of said ball-valve, being relatively constructed and arranged to canse said valve to seat before the water rises in said tank to the level of said valve-seat, substantially as described.

lVitness my hand this 25th day ofJanuary, l S90.

PETER WIII'IE.

Witnesses:

C. l). Moonv, D. W. E. SANFonD. 

